billy

Why do they start dancing and singing in every film? Do Indians live in a different reality to everyone else? Don't Indians just say, for once, OK, lets have one movie without people singing and dancing in the middle for no reason at all?

billy

Don't get me wrong, I love Indian films like Satyajit Ray, and I even enjoyed watching some mad crazy demented Bollywood films from the 1970's when they used to show them late night on channel 4 when I used to smoke weed. Guys in flares on motorbikes battering a load of bald fellas with moustaches and then women with big thighs and hips and ass wiggling all three. It was mad.

Actually, is that the key to Bollywood, to be stoned? Is India on one gigantic spliff? Those colours and chaos of those movies have to be like some Hindu mythology - nothing makes sense, but its kind of cool in a far-out way.

King Koopa

What bothers me is the sheer amount of cock-tease. This whole kiss around each other or rub your nose in her belly button just to avoid a kiss scene. Wtf is that. I mean you're practically dry humping each other, is a kiss really that bad? Excuse me for wanting to watch people suck on each other's tongues.

billy

What bothers me is the sheer amount of cock-tease. This whole kiss around each other or rub your nose in her belly button just to avoid a kiss scene. Wtf is that. I mean you're practically dry humping each other, is a kiss really that bad? Excuse me for wanting to watch people suck on each other's tongues.

I think its all metaphorical. Indians are really horny. There's over a billion of them. They obviously shag alot, but like the Islamic world, they are kind of conservative about sexuality and nudity. But because sexuality must find an outlet, in place of the scenes when characters would get down and do mad jungle fucking, they dance around each other and stuff. Its all highly symbolic and stuff.

^^^ The ending to 'The World of Apu' part of the trilogy by Satyajit Ray. Happiest ending to a movie ever.

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A large part of the story unfolds in Calcutta. Apu Roy (Soumitra Chatterjee) is an unemployed graduate living in a rented room in Calcutta. Despite his teacher's advice to go to University, he is unable to do so because he can't afford it. He tries to find a job, while barely getting by providing private tuition. His main passion is writing a novel, partially based on his own life, hoping to get it published some day. One day he meets his old friend Pulu, who coaxes him to join him on a trip to his village in Khulna to attend the marriage of a cousin named Aparna (Sharmila Tagore).

On the day of the marriage it turns out that the bridegroom has a serious mental disorder. The bride's mother cancels the marriage, despite the father's protests. He and the other villagers believe, according to prevalent Hindu tradition, that the young bride must be wedded off during the previously appointed auspicious hour, otherwise, she will have to remain unmarried all her life. Apu, after initially refusing when requested by a few villagers, ultimately decides to take Pulu's advice and come to the rescue of the bride by agreeing to marry her. He returns with Aparna to his apartment in Calcutta after the wedding. He takes up a clerical job, and a loving relationship begins to bloom between them. Yet the young couple's blissful days are cut short when Aparna dies while giving birth to their son, Kajal. Apu is overcome with grief and holds the child responsible for his wife's death.

He shuns his worldly responsibilities and becomes a recluse - travelling to different corners of India, while the child is left with his maternal grandparents. Meanwhile, Apu throws away his manuscript for the novel he had been writing over the years. A few years later, Pulu finds Kajal growing wild and uncared for. He then seeks out Apu, who is working at a mining quarry and advises Apu one last time to take up his fatherly responsibility. At last, Apu decides to come back to reality and reunite with his son. When he reaches his in-laws' place, Kajal, having seen him for the first time in his life, at first does not accept him as a father. Eventually he accepts Apu as a friend and they return to Calcutta together to start life afresh.